What's it all about, Alfie?

This morning I noticed that Google Chrome dev 17.0.963.2 was out and there were just a few updates, but it appears that it's a standard bug-fix release. Interesting to see if this means we're nearing the end of this release cycle and about to jump major versions again. It'll be interesting because it's not been that long for this cycle, and there haven't been that many significant changes. If so, it might mean that we're nearing the end of the real development for Chrome. That would be interesting to see.

This morning I saw that after a significant period of silence the Google Chrome team released dev 17.0.963.0 with some interesting release notes. I like that the V8 Javascript Engine has been updated to 3.7.12.6, several WebKit rendering bugs fixed, and even better fonts for PDF docs. Nice update.

It's been an interesting lapse in releases, not that it's bad, per se, but that it seems they were doing other things, or these additions have been more significant. If other things, then it's certainly understandable, and if these were especially difficult, or a change of people involved, then that's easy to understand as well. It'll be interesting to see if they come more frequent, or continue to slide.

This morning I saw that Growl 1.3.2 was out in the Mac App Store. There were several fixes, and I have to hand it to The_Tick, and the rest of the Growl crew on IRC - they have put up with a lot of grief on going semi-pro, and have done a nice job of handling the complaints.

I'm pleased with what they have done with the new code, and a few bucks isn't a lot to get quality software, so I can't blame them at all. It's got to pay for itself. Anyway, nice update to the sticky notifications, and the other fixes.